Ruth Mansell Moullin

Photograph of E. Ruth Mansell Moullin.

Ruth Mansell Moullin worked in the slums of Bethnal Green, organising aid, running a soup kitchen and becoming a member of the Anti-Sweating League. After her marriage to surgeon Charles Mansell Moullin, she joined the Kensington branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and he was an active member of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. She was imprisoned at Holloway for her part in a deputation to the House of Commons in November 1911. Later she became an organizer for the WSPU in Wales and founded the Cymric Suffrage Union. She was a close friend of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison who was killed when she stepped in front of the King’s horse at the Derby, and Ruth’s husband was the surgeon who operated on her to try and save her life.